Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 21 Jun 2024 at 06:48:14 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:17:42PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 20 Jun 2024 at 22:58:53 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 09:32:10 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> > > > On 20/06/2024 11:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Well, that's a mouthful. And what am I to call the time that a system
> > issues using that system default time zone? If I boot up two computers
> > and they display different times, what term is appropriate in your
> > opinion to describe the time displayed?
> 
> The first step would be to realize that it's not the "computers" doing
> the time display, but some processes running on them, and *those* are
> the ones with the time zone (either default or explicitly set).

Yes, I realise that. The times are being displayed by the gettys,
controlled by the /etc/issue format string. Jobs are being run
by cron, logs written by rsyslogd, and so on. And the term is … ?

Cheers,
David.